---
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id: kibLensPluginApi
slug: /kibana-dev-docs/api/lens
title: "lens"
image: https://source.unsplash.com/400x175/?github
description: API docs for the lens plugin
date: 2024-08-13
tags: ['contributor', 'dev', 'apidocs', 'kibana', 'lens']
---
import lensObj from './lens.devdocs.json';

Visualization editor allowing to quickly and easily configure compelling visualizations to use on dashboards and canvas workpads. Exposes components to embed visualizations and link into the Lens editor from within other apps in Kibana.

Contact [@elastic/kibana-visualizations](https://github.com/orgs/elastic/teams/kibana-visualizations) for questions regarding this plugin.

**Code health stats**

| Public API count  | Any count | Items lacking comments | Missing exports |
|-------------------|-----------|------------------------|-----------------|
| 685 | 0 | 583 | 62 |

## Client

### Objects
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.client.objects}/>

### Functions
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.client.functions}/>

### Classes
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.client.classes}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.client.interfaces}/>

### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.client.misc}/>

## Server

### Setup
<DocDefinitionList data={[lensObj.server.setup]}/>

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.server.interfaces}/>

## Common

### Interfaces
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.common.interfaces}/>

### Consts, variables and types
<DocDefinitionList data={lensObj.common.misc}/>

